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BACKGROUND
Schools, parents, teachers, and the rest of the Oakland community have been requesting ideas for school improvement.
You've asked, and we've answered.
Each year, School Quality Reviews are done across the Oakland Unified School District to measure and benchmark our schools. As a result, we've found highly effective practices across OUSD schools.
Here you'll find these effective practices from Oakland's top performing schools in particular focus areas. These practices are designed to support our local schools with moving forward in a particular standard, both in terms of questions and implementation.
In most instances, these practices are implemented with means beyond what we can share online. We invite and encourage you to directly contact schools, leaders, and people that are associated with a respective practice.
You've asked, and we've answered.
Each year, School Quality Reviews are done across the Oakland Unified School District to measure and benchmark our schools. As a result, we've found highly effective practices across OUSD schools.
Here you'll find these effective practices from Oakland's top performing schools in particular focus areas. These practices are designed to support our local schools with moving forward in a particular standard, both in terms of questions and implementation.
In most instances, these practices are implemented with means beyond what we can share online. We invite and encourage you to directly contact schools, leaders, and people that are associated with a respective practice.
QUALITY INDICATOR LINKS
Quality Indicator 1:
Quality Learning Experiences for All Students A quality school makes sure that the school curriculum is challenging and connects to the needs, interests, and cultures of its students. It ensures that students learn in different ways inside and outside the classroom. A quality school supports students to take risks and intervenes when they struggle. It inspires students to see how current learning helps them achieve future goals. In a quality school, each child’s learning is regularly assessed in different ways. This assessment information is used to plan their learning, to provide strategic support, and to empower the students and their families to manage their academic progress and prepare for various college and career opportunities. |
Focus Standards:
Practices On: Challenging Curriculum, Learning Environments, Instructional Strategies, Academic Intervention, Enrichment Support, College Preparedness |
Quality Indicator 2:
Safe, Supportive, & Healthy Learning Environments A quality school is a safe, healthy center of its community. Its students, their families, the community, and school staff feel safe because school relationships, routines, and programs build respect, value individual and cultural differences, and restore justice—in the classrooms, hallways, and surrounding neighborhood. Its members are healthy and ready to learn, work, and parent because they have access to services—before, during, and after the school day—that address their academic, emotional, social, and physical needs. |
Quality Indicator 3:
Learning Communities Focused on Continuous Improvement A quality school consistently and collaboratively works to improve itself and to produce higher and more equitable outcomes by students. The school staff – in collaboration with students, families and the broader community – study, reflect, and learn together to strengthen their individual and collective efforts. They consistently look at data, plan, monitor, and evaluate their work. Through these efforts, they share decision-making, responsibility, and accountability. |
Quality Indicator 4:
Meaningful Student, Family and Community Engagement/Partnerships A quality school draws on the strengths and knowledge of the students, their families, and the community to become a center of support to the community and to meet the needs of all its members. Students, families, and community groups are “at the table”—giving voice to their concerns and perspectives; looking at data; planning, monitoring, evaluating the quality of the school; and participating in key decisions. |
Quality Indicator 5:
Effective School Leadership & Resource Management happens when school leaders work together to build a vision of quality and equity, guiding the efforts of the school community to make this vision a reality. Leaders focus the school community on instruction, enabling positive academic and social-emotional outcomes for every student. Leaders guide the professional development of teachers and create the conditions within which teachers and the rest of the community engage in ongoing learning. These leaders manage people, funding, time, technology, and other materials effectively to promote thriving students and build robust, sustainable community schools. |
Focus Standards:
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